Cannot type anything with my keyboard in GNOME Desktop Environment
Hi,
I have just installed FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE amd64 as a virtual machine/guest operating system under Oracle VM Virtualbox 4.3.10. My host operating system is Windows 8.1 64-bit.
I have just installed X server, Gnome, and gdm with the following commands:
The following command is to allow
To allow regular user to
I can still type in my password on the gdm login prompt. But after logging into the GNOME Desktop Environment, I cannot type anything with my keyboard! No characters appear on the screen. I can only use my mouse. I tried to reboot but every time the system boots into gdm. I also tried to enter Single User Mode, but I can't modify /etc/rc.conf as the root filesystem is mounted read only. What can I do?
I am looking forward to your reply.
Yours sincerely,
Teo En Ming
Hi,
I have just installed FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE amd64 as a virtual machine/guest operating system under Oracle VM Virtualbox 4.3.10. My host operating system is Windows 8.1 64-bit.
I have just installed X server, Gnome, and gdm with the following commands:
Code:
# pkg install xorg
# pkg install gnome2
# pkg install nano
# nano /etc/fstab
proc /proc procfs rw 0 0
# nano /etc/rc.conf
gdm_enable="YES"
gnome_enable="YES"
startx
to be executed. # echo "/usr/local/bin/gnome-session" > ~/.xinitrc
To allow regular user to
su
to root, # pw groupmod wheel -m teo-en-ming
I can still type in my password on the gdm login prompt. But after logging into the GNOME Desktop Environment, I cannot type anything with my keyboard! No characters appear on the screen. I can only use my mouse. I tried to reboot but every time the system boots into gdm. I also tried to enter Single User Mode, but I can't modify /etc/rc.conf as the root filesystem is mounted read only. What can I do?
I am looking forward to your reply.
Yours sincerely,
Teo En Ming